The Early Years
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in this city.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts or Boston, Massachusetts today?
Name two major meat items at the Pilgrims' and Wampanoags' Thanksgiving?
What are deer, fish, turkey and eel?
What agreement did the pilgrims have to sign before they could get off the Mayflower that set the laws of the colony?
a. Magna Carta
b. Constitution
c. Mayflower Compact
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Inferencing: Benjamin Franklin wanted this to be the national bird of the United States instead of the Eagle.
What is the turkey?
How long did the first Thanksgiving celebration last?
What is three days?
This famous chief was the leader of the Wampanoag Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
Who is Massasoit?
What was an everyday food that the Native Americans gave the pilgrims' to eat that helped them to survive?
What is corn?
What does "cornucopia" mean?
What is a word meaning “horn of plenty”?
This annual Thanksgiving Day tradition began in the 1920’s in New York City.
What is the Macy's Day Parade?
In the 1600's, what you have to do to a turkey before you can eat it?
What is pluck feathers and cook it?
This item of silverware was not present at the first Thanksgiving.
What is the fork?
Name two food items were eaten at the 1st Thanksgiving and still eaten today?
What are corn and turkey?
Two names for male turkeys and female turkeys
What are toms and hens?
In 1863, this President officially designated the last Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving day in the US.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What year was the celebration that is most commonly attributed as the first Thanksgiving?
What is the year 1621?
This tribe shared the first Thanksgiving with the pilgrims
Who are the Wampanoag?
Several foods Pilgrims and Native Americans made with corn that we still make today?
What is tortillas, corn pone, popcorn, cornbread and corn pudding?
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she couldn't find one big enough for her family.
She asked a stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?
What was his answer?
What is 'No ma'am, they're dead.'
On what ship did the Pilgrims sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Mayflower?
What Native American spoke English and taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn and to fish?
Who is Squanto?
This boat intended to make the journey to the new world with the Mayflower but sprang a leak not once, but twice, forcing it to abandon the trip.
What is the Speedwell?
Consumer demand for larger turkey breasts has resulted in what violent attacking each other problem for domesticated turkeys?
What is feather picking and head butting?
In what century did the pilgrims eat the first pumpkins in North America?
What is the 17th century, 1600's?
The ocean the pilgrims crossed when they left Europe to get to North America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
How many original Pilgrim settlers were there?
What is 102 colonists?